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Date Masters & mistresses names & designations Servants names Quality of servants Number of servants Bachelor servants One and two servants Three and four servants Five to seven servants Eight to ten servants Eleven or more servants Duty
13 Mar 1786 William Ford John Ferrier Footman 1 1 £0.18.9
14 Mar 1786 Robert Renny Esq Robert Dempster
David Teversdall
Postillion
Ho [House] Servant & Gardener
2 2 £1.17.6
14 Mar 1786 Mrs Driver Waiter 1 1 £0.18.9
11 Oct 1785 George Ogilvie Esq William Robertson
Alexander McCarter
Butler
Coachman
2 2 £1.17.6
Major Alexander Turnbull Peter Crombie Footman 1 1 £0.18.9
Robert Stephen Esq James Black Coachman 1 1 £0.18.9
George Bean Waiter 1 1 £0.18.9
Robert Scott Esq David Lamb
Thomas Davidson
Postillion
Gardener
2 2 £1.17.6
16 Oct 1785 Lady Burnett Nathaniel Anderson Houshold 1 1 £0.18.9
17 Oct 1785 James Coutts Esq James Morris Houshold 1 1 £0.18.9
Provost Alexander Christie James Low Postillion 1 1 £0.18.9
Lady Carnegie William Petrie
Francis Mitchell
Chaise driver
Houshold
2 2 £1.17.6
18 Oct 1785 Mr John Keith Collector of the Customs John Murray Footman 1 1 £0.18.9
Alexander Smith of Rosebank Esq William Craig Houshold 1 1 £0.18.9
14 Oct 1785 Mrs Scott of Creggie 1 1 £0.18.9
James Renny Esq Johnathon Forbes 1 1 £0.18.9

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A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants arisen in the Burgh of Montrose for three quarters of one
year commencing the fifth day of July 1784 and ending the fifth day of April 1785 by William Greig, Surveyor

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20 Male Servants as above for 3 quartes of one Year at £0.18.9 each is £18.15.0

I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing duties I find they amount in whole to
Eighteen Pounds Fifteen Shillings Sterling And that upon the ... Day of May 1786 I delivered Mr Robert Napier Jun [Junior] Collector of the said
duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account (as will appear from ... ) duly examined and
compared with the foregoing which contained my Oath that nottices were left with the Several persons before named or at their dwelling houses
of the dates annexed to their respective Names requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of their Servants retained or imployed
by them from the 5th July 1784 to the 5th April 1785 and that the said Account or Survey is made out from the Lists returned to me, and from
the best information I could procure of the Servants of those who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the Nottices
left with them as aforesaid
William Greig Surveyor

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